One of my all-time favorite Cheers jokes was cut in the syndication package. It’s the first time we meet Woody:

And we got a cartoon making fun of Al Gore's version of the Macarena at the '96 Democratic Convention: "Macarena, macaroni, Mickey Rooney, heeeeeyyy, Mack McLarty!"

I was born in late '72, so, unfortunately, I only discovered "Wacky Races" and "The Perils of Penelope Pitstop" as an adult. (I grew up in rural-ish Arkansas, so my cartoon rerun options were pretty limited…heck, I was the right age to have watched "Spider-Man and his Amazing Friends," but our NBC affiliate pre-empted…

REAL TALK: At age 8, I developed a pretty big crush on Janet Waldo once I realized she was Princess, Judy Jetson AND the title character from “The Trouble With Miss Switch.”

Well, he never hosted Lorne Michaels' version of Saturday Night Live. He hosted during the Dick Ebersol years; they needed him to play Spanky in the "Village of the Damned Little Rascals" sketch.

This seems like an appropriate place to say this: It took me a good quarter-century to realize that the opening drums of (Theme from) The Monkees were as close as they could legally get to aping the opening chord of A Hard Day's Night.

Eric Burns-White was right: The phrase “accidental masterpiece” should be locked into the lexicon of Star Wars fans. (Yes, it came from a 2004 installment of Penny Arcade, but it’s still perceptive.)

That type of puzzle — "You have 10 seconds to name an American city without the letter 't' in it! Bet you can't do it ;)" — is actually my second favorite. My MOST favorite is the "Share this image on your wall and type '77' underneath it! You won't believe what happens!" post because I know those people have wasted…

“Although the song’s ending line, ‘Gimme gimme gimme gimme fried chicken,’ has been considered a joke for years, most Queen fans [citation needed] now consider One Vision to be both a celebration and a criticism of KFC. In this interpretation, ‘One flesh, one bone, one true religion’ refers to the company’s famed…

Literally. Explaining edited scene transitions, talking to Susan to fill time for deleted violence, and saying things like "The sound of Mark's sonic boomerang caused slight temporary concussions among the enemy. But they'll be up again shortly!" That's some reassuring voice-over work for a scene that was otherwise…

I was always partial to:

From the often-valuable SNL Transcripts:
Elyse: "I'll tell you, we've had some real memories with Jennifer."
Steven: "Yeah, remember the time we went to Holland, and Jennifer and Mallory were mistaken for international art smugglers, and they were chased all through the streets of Amsterdam?"
Mallory: "Yeah, that was…

A customer at a record store who's getting the Miranda warning after he was caught trying to shoplift One Second and Perfect Day!

The two things I most vividly associate with Bill Maher are both pretty terrible: He was the first person I ever heard say “That’s a very September 10th thing to say” in the days after 9/11 (which may have been overcorrecting for his sounds-awful-out-of-context “we have been the cowards” remark) and the time when Jay…

Carolyne Heldman circa 1987-88 (sort of a proto-Cobie Smulders) was my biggest MTV crush, followed a couple years later by Gena Rositano when she was on Pirate TV.

Eric Roberts was definitely The Master in Fox's Doctor Who movie, so I totally trust your hunch.

Oh, sure, you all SAY that TNT will run Castle forever, but someday, some drama will come along called Cottage or Dogtrot or Bay and Gable, and Castle reruns will quietly fade away, only to resurface on some niche channel of the future like HDDH (“High-Definition Drama Hours”).

My dad's all-time favorite "Peanuts" strip has been, in family conversation, reduced to the punchline "Gee, that'd be neat!", which really needs the context to be appreciated: http://www.peanuts.com/comi…

I can’t speak for all of Arkansas — just the more rural part that’s opposed to sidewalks because they’re a United Nations plot to take away our cars. But I can assure you that I’m exaggerating only slightly when I say that when summer arrives, our pop and mainstream country stations will switch to Kid Rock’s “All…

I've never read Fellowship of the Ring, so I came into the movie cold…so I always envied this one woman in the audience of about 80 people who started quietly, slowly applauding when we saw the Pillars of Kings for the first time.